Wednesday, February 01, 2006

the million monkey death march

Many moons ago, uncharacteristically optimistic.

Every once in a while you come across another reiteration of this theory of the creation of all possible text variations of a given alphabet: the library of babel, the monkeys writing hamlet and so on.

Often it's a machine cranking out the variations in a random or systematic manner. I'm led to wonder if this world is not the machine in question. I for one am happy to be some small part of the process which I can only assume proceeds naturally from the processes of life, just as life proceeds naturally from the processes of energy and matter.

this is what is up with this.

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